** Adapted from the book : Tarot for Yourself by Mary K. Greer **
Your Personality and Soul Cards
Using your birth date you can numerologically calculate your Personality and Soul Numbers. The corresponding Personality Card indicates what you have come into this particular lifetime to learn. The corresponding Soul Card shows your soul purpose through all your lifetimes.
To determine these two cards you add together your month, day, and year of birth like this:
Example:
October 14, 1947
10+14 +1947 = 1971
Then you add each digit in the resulting number: 1 + 9 + 7 + 1 = 18.
Keep any number from 22 to 1. The resulting number is the Per- sonality Number, which in this case corresponds with the eighteenth Major Arcana card: The Moon.
You then add together 1 + 8 = 9.
This is your Soul Number, which in this case corresponds with the ninth Major Arcana card: The Hermit.
Your Soul Number must fall between 1 and 9.
In some cases the number will add up to more than 22. Since there are only 22 Major Arcana cards, reduce the number down to 22 or less.
Example:
February 4, 1980
2+ 4 + 1980 = 1986
1 + 9 + 8 + 6 = 24. 2 + 4 = 6. In this case the number six (The Lovers) is both your Personality and Soul Card. In this lifetime you are specifically working on your soul purpose. It makes you more focused and directed.
There is one case in which more than two cards can appear. If your first
number is 19 you will have three cards.
Example:
This is an especially creative path in which all three cards operate as both Personality and Soul Cards. People with this sequence must learn to com- municate their individual creative expressions. Their personal identity and sense of self will be inextricably com- bined with their life and soul purpose. Their ability to relate to others will de- pend on a harmony of vision and pur- pose with them.
November 16, 1954
11+16+ 1954 1981 =19
1+9=10
1+0=1
This is an especially creative path in which all three cards operate as both Personality and Soul Cards. People with this sequence must learn to com- municate their individual creative ex- pressions. Their personal identity and sense of self will be inextricably com- bined with their life and soul purpose. Their ability to relate to others will de- pend on a harmony of vision and pur- pose with them.
If your birth date adds up to 22, you have a number of great impulsiveness and great mystery, a fine line to balance. 22 represents 0 (The Fool) and reduces to 4 (The Emperor). While you can consider 4 (The Emperor) to be your Soul Card and 22/0 (The Fool) to be your Personality Card (especially when figuring your Numerological Lessons and Opportunities Cards), I find that in practice they work as a unit.
Figure your own Personality and Soul Cards as indicated below:
Add
The month I was born : ________
The day I was born : _________
The year I was born: __________
Equals: __________
Add each digit: ____ + ____ + ____ + ____ = ________
If you have a double-digit answer, add again: ____ + ____ = ________
My Personality Number is ________ (the higher of the two numbers you received, but 22 or less).
The Major Arcana card corresponding to this number is ________________.
My Soul Number is ________ (the single-digit number in your final reduction).
The Major Arcana card corresponding to this number is ________________. (Note exceptions as explained above.)
hey did it :-) : soul number is 21 personality number is 3. how do i find out what they represent ? many thansk again macus
Re: Tarot for Numerology. By: Neferah
Post # 7 Apr 25, 2011
Good to know :). Now since you have the numbers, this numbers correspond to the cards of the major arcana of any tarot deck. For example since you got 21: It corresponds to the card ''The World'' . You can just google :). There are helpful in meditations as new insights can be found lol.
